 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to combat hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. The FAO Office of Evaluation, also called OED, plays a critical role in generating evidence for decision-making. OED has developed an interim strategy to guide its work over the next two years. This strategy describes the mission, vision, spirit and goals of OED. OED's mission is to enable informed decisions. Its vision is to generate evidence and recommendations that inform thinking, deliberations and ultimately decisions of FAO, member nations, donors, partners and others seeking to support the 2030 agenda through the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems. The spirit behind the mission and vision of OED is formative, focused on generating learning that promotes improvements to achieve FAO goals. OED will pursue its mission and vision by generating robust and useful evidence that supports learning and accountability, making potentially transformative recommendations to FAO stakeholders and contributing knowledge to the fields in which FAO operates. In order to do this, OED will work in five focus areas, planning and monitoring, strengthening capacity, research and innovation, evaluating for use and disseminating for broader impact. OED will promote the strategic use of resources in alignment with FAO information needs by regularly assessing demand to identify priorities for evidence-building activities. It will develop policies and processes to support human and financial resource decisions, promote effectiveness and efficiency and monitor OED's performance. Operating as one OED, OED will develop a human resources and decentralization strategy to strengthen capacity to lead, conduct and manage the work of OED globally. It will develop processes to provide supportive and robust quality assurance throughout the life cycle of OED's work. OED will embrace research as critical to designing evaluations, answering stakeholder questions and supporting policy and process development. It will use cutting-edge data science and information technology solutions in support of organizational success. OED's evaluation design will include measuring results of intervention approaches whenever possible and appropriate. It will conduct rigorous evaluations to ensure the needed standard of evidence to promote use. OED will strengthen and diversify internal dissemination and adapt its approach based on stakeholder feedback. It will expand the toolkit of external dissemination strategies to promote transparency and support broader use of evidence in the UN system and beyond. OED is harnessing the experience, technical expertise and commitment of its personnel to drive the transformation of the office and its work. It has already made significant progress, reorganizing the office, both people and work, in preparation for launching this strategy. Expanding into new areas of work such as impact evaluations and data science, actively decentralizing while supporting global integration and efficient operations. This interim strategy provides an initial architecture for excellence in supporting FAO members and management's culture of evidence in decision-making. We welcome feedback and look forward to engaging a wide range of stakeholders in further planning and execution. Thank you.